Another futa definition discussion where I have to bring up the "Futanari? What's that?" book.
Find it, read it. This discussion will probably end up nuked by the mods like all the others.
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I'm not sure what book this is or who wrote it, but you should be careful to blindly believe what you see online or even from 'experts' lmao, especially with socially ambiguous terms and/or concepts.
No one uses these definition with any 'formal' capacity in Japanese porn, where the term futanari was most used and known from. I've seen porn as early as the 2000s called futanari having both genitals, or just being dickgirls, or having balls or not having balls.
The origins of a word are also ultimately meaningless compared to the social context it's actually used in. That's how we get slang, by the way, which is incredibly common to all cultures.
I'm not even sure what you two are even really arguing about any more, but everything in fictional work is fictional and it's a good thing we separate sexualized terms/fetishes/kinks with a layer of fictionalization.
That's one reason why I think this site using trans alongside futa as if they were the same thing idiotic, because they're not in the context they're actually used in and have been used in for decades.
Then study a bit of biology. In particular the development of the reproductive system.
Sexual organs develop from intermediate mesoderm into different male and female counterparts. They develop into different parts depending on hormones.
Both the penis and the clit develop from mesodermal tissue in the phallus. All embyros only have one set of these sexual organs to develop from.The phallus can only develop into one set of these not 2 for example. Therefore, they are mutally exclusive.
The only people with 2 sets of organs are those conjoined twins with connected bodies, born from two nucleu joined together.
Futanari means true hermaphrodism. True hermaphrodism is one specific category of intersex.
True hermaphordism is a disorder/genetic defect in humans, full stop, as are most forms of biological intersex. It's not normal for our species the way it is for others.
Regardless of the term's original meaning, it has an utterly different context today, which is normal. I'm sure you're aware that homosexuality also had a lot of different, not-so-great meanings with off the wall sources of 'affliction' during the same periods, lmao? It was also considered a mental disorder for a long while due to sheer lack of understanding of mental disorders.
"Respecting" origins of words is mostly silly and pointless, as that's just not how language works or, more importantly, society. Tons of words have been coopted or had their meanings changed in modern context.
Futanari is one of them, and has been for decades. It has nothing to do with real people in the context of porn, so developing a new term for it just means the devs have no idea what they're talking about.
This whole argument just seems silly to me. You're not going to find anyone saying "futanari" outside of porn 99% of the time even in Japan save for a few rare cases, and they're seemingly trying to create new terms for stuff like this anyway exactly because of the sexualized association.
Being respectful to the ancient origin of the word in a whacko porn game like this is honestly face-palmy. Like, the heart is there, but it's also incredibly pointless virtue signaling that acomplishes nothing.